ben siscel is getting out in 60 days after serving almost ten years for residential burglary. and i ve came down from the higher levels and worked my way down to this level. so it s a big difference for me. i guess the great opportunity is, you know, you re not behind the wall. this is a little more open. the staff is a lot less intense on their security concerns. the inmates are self-motivated. they can go in and out. there s no unlocks. there s no time limit that they can be out on the yard. they can take a shower anytime they want. to the left you ll see the warehouses, the motor pool, the raft, which is the recycling center that all these level one inmates work at. so they work all the way around here. they work along the road here. they are basically the backbone of the institution. they have too much to lose. so they re not going to mess it up. if you re in prison, you re here to pay for the crime that you committed.
60 days to parole. ben siscel is getting out in 60 days after serving almost ten years for residential burglary. and i ve came down from the higher levels and worked my way down to this level. so it s a big difference for me. i guess the great opportunity is, you know, you re not behind the wall. this is a little more open. the staff is a lot less intense on their security concerns. the inmates are self-motivated. they can go in and out. there s no unlocks. there s no time limit that they can be out on the yard. they can take a shower anytime they want. to the left you ll see the warehouses, the motor pool, the ras, the recycling center, that all these level one inmates work at. so they work all the way around here. they work along the road here. they re basically the backbone of the institution. they have too much to lose. so they re not going to mess it up. if you re in prison, you re here to pay for the crime that you committed.
ben siscel is getting out in 60 days after serving almost ten years for residential burglary. and i ve came down from the higher levels and worked my way down to this level. so it s a big difference for me. i guess the great opportunity is, you know, you re not behind the wall. this is a little more open. the staff is a lot less intense on their security concerns. the inmates are self-motivated. they can go in and out. there s no unlocks. there s no time limit that they can be out on the yard. they can take a shower anytime they want. to the left you ll see the warehouses, the motor pool, the raft, which is the recycling center that all these level one inmates work at. so they work all the way around here. they work along the road here. they are basically the backbone of the institution. they have too much to lose. so they re not going to mess it up. if you re in prison, you re here to pay for the crime that you committed. but the thing is, to just be
ben siscel is getting out in 60 days after serving almost ten years for residential burglary. and i ve came down from the higher levels and worked my way down to this level. so it s a big difference for me. i guess the great opportunity is, you know, you re not behind the wall. this is a little more open. the staff is a lot less intense on their security concerns. the inmates are self-motivated. they can go in and out. there s no unlocks. there s no time limit that they can be out on the yard. they can take a shower anytime they want. to the left you ll see the warehouses, the motor pool, the raft, which is the recycling center that all these level one inmates work at. so they work all the way around here. they work along the road here. they are basically the backbone of the institution. they have too much to lose. so they re not going to mess it up. if you re in prison, you re here to pay for the crime that you committed.
the electrified fence, we only man a couple of towers now. it is lethal. at times there will be fence alarms. there will be birds, rodents that get into the fence line and activate it. at that point we make a cursory search to make sure there are no human bodies in the fence line. after three hours of waiting, james hill finally gets his cell assignment. meanwhile outside the razor wire, an electrified fence lies what could almost pass for a college dormitory. it s the level one yard at kern valley. a lot of the inmates on this yard are very short to the house, which we mean short to the house is that they re anywhere from maybe five days to 60 days to parole. ben siscel is getting out in 60 days after serving almost ten years for residential burglary. and i ve came down from the higher levels and worked my way